{"id":496,"date":"2011-09-27T10:39:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T09:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/?p=496"},"modified":"2011-10-04T23:02:16","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T22:02:16","slug":"statement-expatriates-have-less-work-life-balance-abroad-than-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/2011\/09\/27\/statement-expatriates-have-less-work-life-balance-abroad-than-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement: Expatriates have less work-life balance abroad than at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/imgres?q=work-life&amp;um=1&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=N&amp;biw=1024&amp;bih=497&amp;tbm=isch&amp;tbnid=S4FKSz7-ygr0PM:&amp;imgrefurl=http:\/\/www.myperfectcareer.tv\/2011\/06\/16\/time-for-money-and-other-career-conundrums\/work-life-balance-signpost\/&amp;docid=Cb7I5l1zKkq3YM&amp;w=2719&amp;h=1808&amp;ei=eJeBTrOXDc7wsgbTxuD2DQ&amp;zoom=1&amp;iact=hc&amp;vpx=300&amp;vpy=219&amp;dur=3240&amp;hovh=131&amp;hovw=198&amp;tx=102&amp;ty=83&amp;page=5&amp;tbnh=126&amp;tbnw=168&amp;start=43&amp;ndsp=10&amp;ved=1t:429,r:1,s:43\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-497\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/files\/2011\/09\/worklife-balance.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a>Moving abroad and becoming an expatriate pulls one out of his\/her daily routines and the established work-life balance at home. The new environment, multiple stressors and challenges at work do not fit into the standard eight office hours per day anymore, and leave even less time for settling in with one\u2019s personal side of life.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, we would assume that expatriates have less work-life balance abroad than in their home country.<\/p>\n<p>Fact or Fiction?<\/p>\n<p>Have a look at some <a title=\"Expatriates have less work-life balance abroad than at home. Some evidence.\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/2011\/10\/04\/expatriates-have-less-work-life-balance-abroad-than-at-home-some-evidence\/\" target=\"_blank\">evidence<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moving abroad and becoming an expatriate pulls one out of his\/her daily routines and the established work-life balance at home. As a result, we would assume that expatriates have less work-life balance abroad than in their home country.<\/p>\n<p>Fact or Fiction?   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truth-or-urban-legend"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}